[RFC PATCH 04/12] selftests/powerpc: Use less common thread names
Cyril Bur
cyrilbur at gmail.com
Tue Feb 20 11:22:33 AEDT 2018
"ping" and "pong" (in particular "ping") are common names. If a
selftests causes a kernel BUG_ON or any kind of backtrace the process
name is displayed. Setting a more unique name avoids confusion as to
which process caused the problem.
Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur at gmail.com>
---
tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm-unavailable.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm-unavailable.c b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm-unavailable.c
index e6a0fad2bfd0..bcfa8add5748 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm-unavailable.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm-unavailable.c
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ void test_fp_vec(int fp, int vec, pthread_attr_t *attr)
rc = pthread_create(&t0, attr, ping, (void *) &flags);
if (rc)
pr_err(rc, "pthread_create()");
- rc = pthread_setname_np(t0, "ping");
+ rc = pthread_setname_np(t0, "tm-unavailable-ping");
if (rc)
pr_warn(rc, "pthread_setname_np");
rc = pthread_join(t0, &ret_value);
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
pr_err(rc, "pthread_create()");
/* Name it for systemtap convenience */
- rc = pthread_setname_np(t1, "pong");
+ rc = pthread_setname_np(t1, "tm-unavailable-pong");
if (rc)
pr_warn(rc, "pthread_create()");
--
2.16.2
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